Paris - French warplanes pounded the
Islamic State group's de facto capital in Syria on Sunday, in the first such
strikes since a wave of coordinated attacks claimed by the jihadists left 129 people
dead in Paris.
As the nation prepared to mourn the victims
of the carnage in a minute of silence on Monday, a dozen warplanes dropped 20
bombs on IS targets in the Islamists' stronghold of Raqa, signalling the French
government's resolve in its fight against the group.
World leaders united Sunday to denounce
terrorism at a heavily-guarded G20 summit in Turkey and observed a minute's
silence in respect of those who were killed.
"We stand in solidarity with France in
hunting down the perpetrators of this crime and bringing them to justice,"
US President Barack Obama said after talks with his host, Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Russia's Vladimir Putin said overcoming
global terror was possible only "if all the international community unites
its efforts".
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